Welcome to Virtual Chair
Virtual Chair facilitates the organization of efficient and effective academic events by focusing on three priorities: interaction among participants, dissemination of materials, and broadening participation. With Virtual Chair, organizers can easily take full advantage of best practices for virtual events.
Event Category
Virtual Chair Process
Production Phase 1
Professional
For companies looking to engage their employees working remotely or hybrid, Virtual Chair offers innovative solutions in virtual offsite and conferences that can be used on an on-going basis.
Academic
Virtual Chair provides an all in technology solution for virtual conferences, leaving organizers free to focus on the content. Aside from conferences, Virtual Chair’s poster or networking rooms can be incorporated into any other academic events such as Ph.D. visit days.
Social
If you are interested in using spatial chat platforms for a social gathering, Virtual Chair provides fun custom maps for any occasion, with virtual assistants available during events to troubleshoot technical issues. Virtual Chair’s team can also lead virtual scavenger hunts or other social activities for a great attendee experience.
Align Schedule & Activities
Determine Venue Size
Design Venue
Production Phase 2
Enumerate Content Type and Quantity
Collect and Organize Content
Production Phase 3
Train Presenters
Communicate to Attendees
Run Your Event!
Services
Optimal Scheduling
Virtual Chair enables the advanced, multi-track conference programs found in large academic conferences
Poster Sessions
Build a virtual poster hall/rooms to show posters or other meaningful collections of conference items
Audio-visual production
Our end-to-end video production workflow seamlessly combines pre-recorded videos with live presentations, panel sessions, and Q&A
Content Management
Virtual Chair helps you gather and manage all the content at your conferences, including papers, abstracts, videos and links
Networking Area
Virtual Chair provides relaxing areas with gamification conducive to virtual interaction
Event-specific landing page
Welcome attendees to your conference with an instructional webpage
Sponsor booths
Create custom video booths for sponsors and exhibitions at your conference
Expert Support
Our experienced team of producers, graphic designers, AV techs, and help desk attendants is ready to make your conference a success.
Sample Custom Designs
Here are some design samples we’ve created for our customers:
Trusted by Thousands
Lenovo
Ongoing
Lenovo has an on-going engagement with Virtual Chair to provide networking for its remote workers
AAAI
February 2021
AAAI used Virtual Chair to collect and program close to 2000 posters and talks as well a job fair with dozens of participating sponsors
DES
April 2021
Danish Epidemiological Society took advantage of Virtual Chair’s platform flexibility to provide outstanding accessibility support for its attendees
MIW
May 2021
Marketplace Innovation Workshop (MIW) ran 36 parallel session talks, 4 plenary livestreams and 8 poster sessions using Virtual Chair
IEEE
May 2021
IEEE S&P integrated Virtual Chair specifically for the interactive nature of Virtual chair’s poster sessions and sponsor booths for its 1000+ attendees
UCAI
January 2021
The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) hosted its entire multi-track conference with custom design lobby, poster, demo and breakout rooms during a period of one week using Virtual Chair
Customer Experience
Virtual Networking
Great Support
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Upcoming Events
Checkout our upcoming events
Four day global event to promote the protection and conservation of sea turtles
Annual conference of psychology practitioners, educators, researchers and students from around the world
Virtual Chair is a solution designed to support organizations that provide an easy interface to create fully-interactive virtual academic conferences, events, seminars, and meetings.
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These events are organized through the collaborative effort of academic institutions, associations, and professional organizations around focused themes.